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15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Polish of the Polish Plot, if I Can Torture You on a Very Large Scale

Polish penetration of Ukraine and the Soviet Union was so incredibly important, comrade Balitsky. Perhaps that's because you yourself are a Polish spy, right? So the person who invented this idea was himself executed as a Polish spy. In the national actions, roughly 100,000 people will be killed as spies for Poland. And this, although it's a horrifying event in its own right, also goes back to this original Senate collectivization.

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